[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 47 (Friday, March 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14213-14214]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5819]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[AAG/A Order No. 219-2001]


Privacy Act of 1974; Computer Matching Agreement

AGENCY: Department of Justice.

ACTION: Notice--computer matching between the Department of Justice and 
the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Treasury.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as 
amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 
(Pub. L. 100-503), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Guidelines on 
the Conduct of Matching Programs (54 FR 25818, June 19, 1989), OMB 
Bulletin 89-22, ``Instructions on Reporting Computer Matching Programs 
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Congress and the 
Public,'' and OMB Circular No. A-130, Revised February 8, 1996, 
``Management of Federal Information Resources'', the Department of 
Justice is issuing a public notice of its intent to conduct a computer 
matching program with the Internal Revenue Service, Department of 
Treasury. Under this matching program, entitled Taxpayer Address 
Request, the IRS will provide return information relating to taxpayers' 
mailing addresses to the DOJ for the purposes of locating delinquent 
debtors to notify them of enforcement action to collect debts owed by 
the taxpayers to the United States.

DATES: Effective date: The matching program will become effective 40 
days after a copy of the agreement, as approved by the Data Integrity 
Board of each agency, is sent to Congress and the Office of Management 
and Budget, or April 9, 2001, whichever is later. The matching program 
will continue for 18 months after the effective date and may be 
extended for an additional 12 months, if the conditions specified in 5 
U.S.C. 552a(o)(2)(D) have been met.

Reporting

    In accordance with Pub. L. 100-503, the Computer Matching and 
Privacy Protection Act of 1988, as amended, Office of Management and 
Budget bulletin 89-22, ``Instructions on Reporting Computer Matching 
Programs to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Congress and the 
Public'' and Circular No. A-130, Revised February 8, 1996, ``Management 
of Federal Information Resources'', copies of this notice and report 
are being provided to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight 
of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate, and the Office of Management and Budget.

Authority

    This matching program is being conducted under the authority of the 
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 6103(m)(2). This provides for disclosure, 
upon written request, of a taxpayer's mailing address for use by 
officers, employees, or agents of a Federal agency for the purpose of 
locating such taxpayer to notify him/her of enforcement action to 
collect or compromise a Federal claim against the taxpayer in 
accordance with sections 3711, 3717, and 3718 of title 31 of the United 
State Code, statutory provisions which authorize DOJ to collect debts 
on behalf of the United States through litigation.

Objectives To Be Met by the Matching Program

    The purpose of this program is to provide DOJ with the most current 
addresses of taxpayers to notify debtors of legal actions that may be 
taken by DOJ and the rights afforded them in the litigation to enforce 
collection of debts owed to the United States.

Records To Be Matched

    DOJ will provide records from the Debt Collection Management 
System, JUSTICE/JMD-006. This system of records contains information on 
persons indebted to the United States who have allowed their debts to 
become delinquent and whose debts have been sent by client Federal 
agencies to DOJ for enforced collection through litigation. DOJ records 
will be matched against records contained in the Privacy Act System of 
Records: Individual Master File (IMF), Treasury/IRS 24.030, which 
contains taxpayer entity records and tax modular records which contain 
all records relative to specific tax returns for each applicable tax 
period or year.

Categories of Records/Individuals Involved

    DOJ will submit the nine digit Social Security Number (SSN) and 
four character Name Control (the first four letters of the surname) of 
each individual whose current address is requested. IRS will provide an 
address for each taxpayer whose SSN and Name Control matches the 
records submitted by DOJ. IRS will provide a code explaining the type 
of error, if any, encountered during processing if no address 
information is provided, or no match is found.

Notice Procedures

    IRS provides direct notice to taxpayers in the instructions to 
Forms 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ, that information provided on U.S. 
Individual Income Tax Returns may be given to other Federal agencies, 
as provided by law. Both IRS and DOJ have provided constructive notice 
to record subjects through the publication of system of records notices 
in the Federal Register for the records involved in this match that 
contain routine uses permitting disclosures for this matching program.

Address for Receipt of Public Comments or Inquiries

    Interested persons are invited to submit written comments regarding 
this notice to Imogene McCleary, Deputy Director, Debt Collection 
Management, Justice Management Division, 325 7th

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Street NW., 2nd Floor South, Washington, DC 20530.

    Dated: March 1, 2001.
Stephen R. Colgate,
Assistant Attorney General for Administration.
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